Quiet, exact, and no air on board.
STE Precision is the all-electric Steady Eddie: an electric drive on every control and nothing else to carry. It is the fit for light, fine controls, for work indoors and near people, and for sites that do not want compressed air anywhere near them. The first line we built, and the one the others grew from.
Steady Eddie on an excavator's joysticks.
Every control, driven electrically.
Each control gets an electric drive sized for it, in the same pods, on the same platform and the same dock as the hybrid. What the electric line gives up is brute force on the heaviest levers. What it keeps is precision, quiet, and a unit with no air to supply, dry or maintain.
The unit lifts in and out of the dock the same way, calibrates to the cab the same way, and answers to the same rules, the same person and the same safety system. Only the drive is different.
- Joysticks and light control levers
- Dials, selectors and switches
- Light pedals and travel controls
- Implement controls on light and compact machines
Built for the cab with fine controls.
An excavator's operator station.
Choose the electric line on purpose.
The hybrid is the system we recommend unless the cab or the site says otherwise. These are the three things a site says that point to STE Precision.
Quiet, clean, and nothing venting.
A shop floor, a plant, a barn, a yard where people work beside the machine. An electric drive makes no noise worth mentioning and vents nothing.
Fine, repeatable movement on light levers and joysticks.
Compact excavators, skid steers, telehandlers and the light end of the fleet reward a drive that is exact rather than strong.
No compressor, no lines, no drying.
Where there is no compressed air on site and no wish to bring it, the electric line asks for nothing but a fused power feed from the machine.
The four questions buyers ask first.
- What does it do to my machine? Nothing. Nothing is cut, no harness is tapped, no controller is flashed and no OEM software is touched. The only wire is a fused power feed.
- How long is my machine down? The first fit takes days and happens once. After that the unit goes in and out of the dock.
- Who diagnoses it at six in the morning? Your machine's systems are untouched. Its fault codes stay its own, and no diagnostic path for the machine runs through us.
- What happens when I sell the machine? The unit lifts out and the dock comes off. The machine is standard.
The light end of the yard.
The machines where fine control matters more than force, and where the electric line is at home.
Three ways to take control away from Eddie.
Pull the machine's own pilot control lockout lever, which Eddie raises and lowers exactly as an operator does. Pull the red manual release on any actuator, with one hand, no tool and no power. Or cut the power to the drives, which the safety system does on its own veto. Each one works without the other two. STE Precision's safety functions are designed against the architecture of ISO 13849 and built toward ISO 17757, the standard for autonomous earth-moving machinery. We claim no certification and no performance level; the releases are yours to try at our own Test Facility in Alberta.
Not sure it is the electric line you need?
Most fleets are not, and that is why the hybrid exists. Tell us the machine, the ground and the crew and we will say which system fits, and why. The three systems, side by side.